Janet Street-Porter | The Independent Janet Street-Porter Photo Bio Janet Street-Porter is a writer, broadcaster and former editor of The Independent on Sunday. She writes a weekly column for The Independent. Appearing regularly on TV shows including Question Time and Loose Women, and having presented series on subjects as diverse as walking, cooking and architecture, she has won several TV awards including a Bafta for originality and the Prix Italia. She has written two memoirs, Baggage and Fall Out, and had a bestseller with Life's Too F***ing Short. Having originally studied architecture, she has commissioned two houses by leading architects. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Janet Street-Porter Are we creating an atmosphere of exceptionalism for Islam? The fallout from that video is now out of all proportion. When the other Olympic medallists took part in a rally in Trafalgar Square and a reception at Buckingham Palace, Smith was talking to imams and visiting two mosques in East London Young women today have access to contraception and advice about relationships and mental health in a way my generation did not.

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Keep up to date with the latest Buy Yorkshire news, announcements and press features. Janet Street Porter Speaking at Buy Yorkshire 2014 3rd December 2013 We’re very excited that Janet Street-Porter, will be speaking at Buy Yorkshire next year. Janet Street- Porter, well-known British media personality, journalist and television presenter is welcomed to our conference for 2014. Over recent years Janet has appeared on numerous TV shows for all the major broadcasters including four series of The F Word with Gordon Ramsay, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Deadline (she was the editor of this celebrity staffed newspaper), Call me A Cabbie, So you think you can nurse and So you think you can teach. She has appeared frequently on Question Time and Have I Got News For You. She has made a number of television programmes on walking, including Coast to Coast and As The Crow Flies, where she walked in a straight line from Edinburgh to London. Janet is also passionate and outspoken about art and architecture. She began training as an architect before she went into journalism. She has commissioned and built two houses in London.

Once again she has turned this personal interest into captivating television, she made an episode of The Genius of British Art for Channel 4 and Demolition also for Channel 4, that looked at the worst buildings in the country. Janet is currently a regular panelist on ITV1’s Loose Women and she writes a weekly column for the Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday. She has written seven books including two volumes of memoirs, two self-help guides and two books on walking. She told us: “My love affair with Yorkshire started more than 30 years ago when I first came to live here and discovered just how fabulous this county is. It’s great to be involved in the 2014 Buy Yorkshire Conference, and help spread the message-Yorkshire has so much to offer- there’s nowhere else in the UK like it.” Janet’s wealth of knowledge and experience combined with her insight and adoration of Yorkshire will make for an interesting perspective. We’re really looking forward to hearing what she has to say! Janet will be providing a standalone seminar and chairing one of the Billion Pound Panel sessions.

Janet Street-Porter: A one-woman angry brigade | From the Observer | The Guardian The Observer A one-woman angry brigade Janet Street-Porter is cross, very cross, and the targets of her anger - her mother, her four husbands and Kelvin MacKenzie - are not spared in her new stage show Share on Messenger Close However many terrifying stories you hear about Janet Street-Porter before you meet her - and, believe me, there are quite a few of them doing the rounds - once you are sitting in front of her, listening to her squawk and swear and spill the beans, she really is quite something. Actually, she's adorable, like a crazy old macaw in a zoo. She's warm. She's irreverent. And she's bloody funny. Where's that top from? I ask, ever-so-politely. 'Oh, it's Yohji Yamamoto,' she says. Hmm. Very nice. 'No, it isn't , Rachel. It looks like a f****** J Cloth .' On second thoughts, perhaps there is something of the janitor's closet about it, for all that she wears it with her customary bravado. 'Yeah.

And it wasn't even in the sale, was it? Typical.' She looks amazing, too. Street-Porter is 56, but she could pass for someone a decade younger. The hair is mulberry, the skin dewy. These days, she is a size 16 - 'too fat to squeeze into Alexander McQueen trousers' - but this doesn't matter a jot; she is so tall that the flab makes no impact. The frilly teeth are still there, looking exactly like the kind I used to make with orange peel as a child, but the wacky glasses have long gone. A year ago, she finally had her eyes lasered. I tell her that I think this is a shame; it used to make me want to cheer, the way she clung to her specs when everyone around her was busy faffing about with contact lenses. She rolls her eyes. 'Oh, come on , Rachel. That's like telling a cripple, "Oh, I love you with your crutches", isn't it?' Would she consider having cosmetic surgery now she is of, erm, a certain age? 'Nah. The bags go when I stop drinking and go to bed early. They kind of shrink.

And what if I looked like Julie Christie as a result? I mean, some people might say she looks gorgeous but, you know, something happened there. A lot of people I've worked with have had extraordinary facelifts [she mentions a couple of well-known actresses] but the trouble is, their teeth fit the old face, not the new one. 'Then, as you get older, your gums recede, your teeth get bigger. So you have to have them done, too. Look at Bowie. He's so thin. He looks great, but he's still got two big tombstones in his mouth. I know people are going to go, "Ooh, pot calling kettle black", but really ...' But enough of this chitchat. Street-Porter is in a terrible rush. We must order our lunch - she eats like a horse, another thing I like about her - and get down to business. In an hour's time, she has to be at the Soho Theatre for a technical rehearsal of her one-woman show, All the Rage, an hour-long rant which, next month, she is taking to the Edinburgh Festival. Has she written it herself? 'Yeah [very sarcastic].

I am a writer, you know. I do make my living as a writer.' No help from any of her showbiz friends? 'No.' More eye-rolling. What's it about? 'Well, last year, I just started getting crosser and crosser. I was turning into Victor Meldrew. So I decided to turn it into a show. I do something I've never done before every year. Being stuck in a groove bothers me.' All the Rage takes as its starting point the fact that, for the first time in her working life, Street-Porter is somewhat adrift. She still writes a newspaper column but the TV offers she receives are little short of insulting when you consider her long career in the medium. The other day, for instance, she was asked to take part in a new Channel 5 series called Gender Switch. She was also invited to undergo on-screen colonic irrigation for Celebrity Detox. Yuck. All the Rage, then, blows a big, fat raspberry at a culture that throws the experienced and talented on the scrapheap before they are even in possession of their pension books.

En route, however, it takes the audience through her childhood (of which, more later), her marriages (ditto) and her surprise appointment on the board of the Ramblers' Association, of which she is now vice-president. She doesn't much care if the critics pillory this effort. 'What's the worst that people can say about me? That I've got a big mouth? Private Eye has already done that. I just want people to see it and say, "She's not afraid to put herself on the line." ' And sure enough, All the Rage is unblinkingly honest, scrutinising her lows (Live!TV, marriage number four) just as closely as her highs (head of youth programmes at the BBC, winning the Prix Italia). At one point, she even strips off her party dress and stands there in black bra and hiking shorts, the 'rolls of fat' on her tummy visible for all to see. 'Nothing in life is a failure,' she says. 'I'm going to sound like f****** Geri Halliwell now, but it's all part of the journey. I've done a lot of different things in my life.

If I was a bloke, of course, my career would be described as eclectic. But because I'm a woman, I'm trivial. No depth. No staying power. What utter bollocks.' Janet Street-Porter, née Bull, grew up in Perivale, west London. Her mother was a school dinner lady and a Welsh speaker, a language her daughter finds ugly and ludicrous. 'There are no words for anything invented after the Black Death.' Her father was an electrical engineer. She also had an 'annoying' younger sister, Patricia, with whom she had to share a tiny bedroom (though, happily, she loves her now). Hers was not a happy childhood. Janet loathed her mother, and spent most of her teenage years trying to work out how to escape from her (both her parents now being dead, a hefty section of her show is devoted to this enmity; she is also writing a book about the relationship). The trouble was, even once she had made her getaway - by marrying a man 'with a hyphen' - Mommie Dearest still 'chipped away' at her. 'No, I didn't like my mother.

She was a pain in the arse.' Did she like you? 'No. I used to look at these people who were allegedly my parents and think: they're neanderthals. They picked up the wrong baby. One day, there'll be a knock at the door and it'll be the right person: intelligent, gorgeous. The mansion in Surrey will beckon. 'They were ambitious for me, but that was the only good thing about them. And, of course, once I was successful, it was never enough. I have a problem with anyone who gets on with their mother. Mothers put all this energy into controlling you from a distance. Why don't they run fucking Railtrack instead of ringing their daughters up every Sunday? 'I was even too thin. I once wore this Azzedine Alaia dress - I was a size 10 - and my mother said, "Has anyone told you that you can be too thin? You might have lost it off your backside, but you're going to have wrinkles round your neck." I thought: you sad old cow. Then she said, "Why are you wearing those stupid shoes?" She made me put on these fluffy slippers.

There I was, eating dinner at her house, in her slippers. 'I think her attitude was, "You're too big for your boots. In my eyes, you're still my daughter. I know you better than anybody." But she didn't know me at all. You don't think that when I was growing up I told her a f****** thing that was going on in my head, do you?' Did her mother disapprove of her many marriages? 'Yes, but after the first one, you just ring 'em up and tell 'em, don't you?' Does her poor relationship with her mother have anything to do with her decision not to have children herself? 'No. I was married to the children.' She snorts. 'Also, I worked too hard.' And no, she never felt there was a stigma attached to her failure to breed. 'A lot of women in my generation didn't have them.' The young Janet was a mod who put toothpaste on her hair in the hope that it would give her blonde streaks.

Having dispensed with her virginity - she chose her prey, jiggled about a bit on his single bed, and went home with a spring in her step - at 18, she left home to live with the photographer, Tim Street-Porter. Two years later, they were married; it lasted for seven years. Next up, the publisher of Time Out, Tony Elliott, still a close friend, followed by filmmaker Frank Cvitanovich. This union ended when he found her with a lover, Tony James of the group Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Then - keep up! - she dated groovy old Normski, a 24-year-old photographer who drove a gold-plated BMW before, at 50, she made the mistake of marrying husband number four, David Sorkin. Sorkin was 22 years her junior. The pair had only known each other for a short time when they set off to travel across America. They rowed in New Orleans, and Savannah, and Taos and so, obviously, they got to Las Vegas and tied the knot.

Street-Porter, who wore pink fur for the occasion, woke up the next day and thought: 'Oh, shit.' They were divorced 14 months later, after he squirted her with salad cream during yet another argument. He then sold his story to a tabloid. 'She wanted sex at least once a day,' he moaned. 'I began to feel used.' In her show, Street-Porter is hilarious about this relationship, the only one of her four marriages over which she usually draws a veil. 'What happened was, I had a midlife crisis,' she says. 'Don't forget, I'd always been married. Serial monogamy: it's a bit like HRT - addictive. You go seamlessly from one to the next. I got to 48, and I thought: god, I'm by myself. I got married to...' Plug the gap for a bit? 'Yes. I think throughout most of my life I've been afraid to be by myself. I can do it when I walk, but being alone in the house - I can only do one night.' She now lives with her boyfriend of four years, who owns the Clerkenwell restaurant where we are having lunch. Will she marry again?

'Are you kidding?' In the light of all this frantic activity on the relationship front, her career seems all the more amazing. Her early jobs were in journalism - she worked on Petticoat and at the Mail - after which she moved into TV, first as a presenter, then behind the scenes. She produced Network 7 for Channel 4, a 'yoof' programme she believes, that changed the face of television. Then she went to the BBC and created a host of equally self-conscious shows: Def II, the Rough Guides, Dance Energy. Her disenchantment with the corporation grew, however, when she was turned down for a series of bigger jobs, including controller of BBC1. So, in 1995, she click-clacked off to Canary Wharf to launch Live!TV, the Mirror Group's £30 million venture into cable TV. Alas, she and the channel's director of broadcasting, Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of the Sun, did not get on. She was sacked. MacKenzie was, and still occasionally is, completely vile about her. 'Yeah, but I couldn't care less.

If I say anything about him, it makes him seem too important.' Still, her own reputation in the workplace is pretty fearsome. During the two years she edited the Independent on Sunday (she resigned in 2001), she was reputed to be a bully who had to win arguments and who disliked working with women. What kind of boss is she? 'Well, I've started a lot of people on their careers.' Does she prefer her colleagues to be male or female? This is the only time during our conversation that Street-Porter does not quite meet my eye. 'I don't care. It's only lazy people I don't like.' Hmm. On the plus side, she is a loyal and generous friend. Ooh, and her pals are so glamorous, too. There's Neil (Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys) and Sam (Taylor-Wood, the artist) and Elton (John, of course). Who's her best friend? Who would she ring in the night if she were about to kill herself? 'Oh, gawd. That's really mean. Well, Neil, probably. Oh, and Elton. And David, Elton's partner. He's Canadian, but he's still very nice.

Ha ha!' Doesn't she find these people's egos a bit, well, gargantuan? 'No! I like big egos. We all just talk at once.' Is she a good girlfriend? 'Well, I wouldn't live with me. I'm a nightmare. But I'm good at responding to neediness.' She treats her menfolk, she says, 'like a project'. As she is the first to admit, Janet Street-Porter is a frustrating skein of contradictions: a builder of fabulous modern houses who never spends an evening at home; a city girl who likes nothing better than walking across a Yorkshire moor in a rainstorm; a TV innovator whose favourite programme is Casualty; a collector of designer labels who can no longer be bothered to 'suck her stomach in'. But what really sets her apart is the fact that she genuinely doesn't give a flying f*** about what other people think. I watch her eating her asparagus with her fingers, and all I can think is the world would probably be a more boring place without her. Right now, with her latest Clerkenwell eyrie behind schedule (builders, eh?

If only she hadn't slagged them off when she was on Room 101 ), she's living in her house in Whitstable. Imagine her there, tottering along those higgledy-piggledy streets. What a sight for sore eyes. Though I mean this in the nicest possible way, of course. · All the Rage is at the Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh (0131 226 2428) from 5 August. BBC should stop being 'cosy middle class' club, says Janet Street-Porter | Media | The Guardian BBC BBC should stop being 'cosy middle class' club, says Janet Street-Porter Broadcaster and ex-newspaper editor says corporation must listen to its audience more, also attacking ‘horrible innuendo’ on The Great British Bake Off Janet Street-Porter criticised ‘horrible innuendo’ on shows such as BBC’s The Great British Bake Off.

Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/BBC/Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon Tuesday 29 September 2015 10.44 EDT Last modified on Thursday 11 August 2016 06.07 EDT Close This article is 1 year old Broadcaster and former newspaper editor Janet Street-Porter has said the BBC must start listening to the Gogglebox generation and put an end to its “cosy middle class” club by reflecting the lives of the people who pay for it. Street-Porter, who was a BBC executive for nearly 10 years, said the BBC would be “in big trouble … if it doesn’t start doing less and listening to its audience more”. She accused the BBC of never finding room for estuary accents on services such as Radio 4, and accused the corporation of “specialising in horrible innuendo – it’s like a creeping fucking paralysis” – on shows such as BBC1’s The Great British Bake Off . She also took aim at senior management – “Where is the cull we have been promised for years?” – and competitive scheduling of shows such as Strictly Come Dancing against The X Factor.

“The basic fact remains the BBC is very good at a lot of things but it can’t afford to be complacent,” Street-Porter told the Radio Festival at the British Library in London on Tuesday. “As the election of Jeremy Corbyn [as Labour leader] reminds us, sometimes the unthinkable happens.” Street-Porter said the BBC was “fighting for its life and needs to engage with millions of people just like the Goggleboxers. There should be a new dish in the BBC canteen – humble pie.” She said the BBC should “stop blowing its own trumpet in a self-satisfied way” with on-screen promos about its own services and “realise that out there in the real world the organisation is increasingly seen as peripheral by a lot of people”. “I’m a huge BBC fan but how often do I hear an estuary accent on Radio 4? Never. Start the week, don’t get me started, a cosy chat between the middle classes. Radio 3, which I adore and would defend to the end, is another bastion of cosy middle class listening with endless chat now ruining it. It seems to assume that only one kind of person listens to classical music.

“If you go to the Proms you see a huge range of people but the voices and personalities that the BBC uses to communicate with Britain at large all fit into a very narrow remit. On television presenters are given the BBC treatment so bumps and quirkiness gets subtly ironed out until they all turn into BBC people. “Even Robert Peston is now being criticised because he had the temerity to grow his hair and unbutton his shirt, well he has a huge following precisely because he doesn’t look like anyone else or sound like them either.” Street-Porter said it was “increasingly rare” for BBC presenters to speak the language of ordinary men and women, highlighting former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson as an exception, who she said belonged to the same social class as his former bosses. She said Bake Off presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins “have been turned into a bland music hall turn who specialise in grizzly innuendo. The BBC does specialise in this horrible innuendo – it’s like a creeping fucking paralysis.

“Surely there are historians, social commentators, news readers and authors who could project a more socially balanced reflection of the real people sitting at home.” Street-Porter said too many BBC executive, like MPs, had never worked in the real world and were “dangerously out of step with the real Britain of the Goggleboxers and the discount supermarket shoppers. BBC bosses are Waitrose people through and through. They seem to have decided that middle class and middle of the road is the way to reach their audience”. She took aim at the BBC’s creative director Alan Yentob, “a friend of mine’, and his appearance on Newsnight in the wake of Jeremy Clarkson’s axing by BBC2’s Top Gear. She said Yentob had told the programme “There are quite a lot of programmes which reach out to audiences which are C2DEs, which aren’t the metropolitan elite.” Street-Porter said: “That single statement opened the lid on how the university educated big cheeses at the BBC view a large section of their audience. The kind of people they clearly do not run into in their social circles.” She added: “Sadly in my experience the series W1A is not a parody.

It is a perfectly accurate depiction of most meetings at the BBC. Too many meetings and too little action, too many bosses paid far too much given impossibly pompous and meaningless titles replicating simple tasks. “They are masters of the opaque language of exclusion which reinforces the impression that a club of clever clogs are talking to each other, anxious not to offend and are scared of anything truly ground breaking, edgy or new.” The former editor of the Independent on Sunday and now a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women, Street-Porter was also head of youth and entertainment features at the BBC, where her commissions included BBC2’s twice-weekly Def II. A BBC spokeswoman said: “Janet has never been shy about offering an opinion but, while we appreciate there’s always more we can do, it’s a shame she doesn’t acknowledge the progress we have made in reflecting modern Britain.” BFI Screenonline: Street-Porter, Janet (1946-) Biography The pioneer of a broadcasting genre - Youth Television - Janet Street-Porter brought to the first multimedia generation a greater sense of intimacy and accessibility.

Her programmes were characterised by the unconventional television techniques of mixing current affairs and lifestyle features, supplemented with information running ticker-tape fashion at the bottom of the screen or footage running alongside the presenter in vision. The affect this sense of informality had in the more conventional area of news presentation could be seen by the success of Channel 5 News (1997- ): Kirsty Young striding around the newsroom while facts roll off the graphic display. Born Janet Bull in Fulham, London, to an electrical engineer father and a school dinner lady mother, she married student Tim Street-Porter while they were at The Architectural Association. After leaving architecture school in the mid-1960s, Street-Porter worked as a freelance journalist and, in 1968, was offered a job as editorial assistant on Petticoat magazine, writing about design. Within nine months she was poached by the Daily Mail, where she became a columnist (billed as the 'Voice of Youth') writing about fashion.

She later joined the London Evening Standard as fashion editor, but pretty soon she was doing radio work, and in 1973 helped launch the London radio station LBC (LWT, 1980-82), presented by the young Danny Baker , later among her co-hosts on the London area current affairs programme The 6 O'Clock Show (LWT, 1982-88). The Chat Show (LWT, 1982) - billed as The C(h)at Show - where the guests and the studio audience were made up of women, and After Midnight (LWT, 1983), a late-night talk show co-hosted with Hunter Davies , extended her role as an on-screen presenter. LWT 's ten-minute-long series of offbeat programmes, Paint Box (1985), a combination of wild images and new music, and Border TV 's Bliss (Channel 4, 1985-86), a dizzy mixture of rock music, star chatter and fashion, were to be the forerunners of Street-Porter ) and other elements of contemporary culture.

Despite its flip MTV -style of presentation and fast-moving on-screen factual information, the slot was criticised for its patronising approach to youth culture: not crediting British youth with being intelligent enough to hold the shortest of attention spans. Moreover, the new wave facets of youth TV programming - as exemplified by Def II - was by this time commonplace in mainstream television. During this period at the BBC , her strong accent became the focus of caricature and her pronunciation of the word 'youth' led to the popular phrase 'Yoof TV'. In 1992 Street-Porter branched out into arts programming with an updated version of the 19th century romantic opera by German composer Heinrich Marschner , the production was seen by many as her application for the job of head of BBC arts. She didn't get the job but she did win a Prix Italia award for the production. She finally rose to Head of Independent Commissioning in her last year at the BBC . In 1994, she left the BBC to become managing director of the Mirror Group L!ve TV (1994-1995).

Less than a year after her move to London's Canary Wharf to mastermind the launching of L!ve TV , she resigned. Her remit was to deliver 24-hour programming on a shoestring budget. As the station neared its launch, new technology failed to work, pressures on the staff mounted and tensions rose. She soon discovered that former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie had been brought in over her. The series of stand-up rows between Street-Porter and MacKenzie became the stuff of media legend as he pulled the channel downmarket with topless darts and news bunnies. It became the subject of the documentary Nightmare at Canary Wharf At the opening of the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 1995, Street-Porter used her keynote address at the 20th annual James MacTaggart Lecture to attack the standards of leadership in the industry. Entitled 'Talent Versus Television', her lecture heaped derision on the BBC as a "temple of transparency, accountability and process", censured the obsession of ITV companies with the size of their profit, and condemned Channel 4 for appearing to be stuck in a 1960s time warp.

However, her most infamous and oft-quoted observation from the MacTaggart lecture was that "a terminal blight has hit the British TV industry... this blight is management - the dreaded four Ms: male, middle-class, middle-aged and mediocre." No sooner had the dust settled after her savage Edinburgh Festival speech than she sent forth another abrasive sound-bite the following year. For Channel 4 strand, the 'J'Accuse Technonerds' edition (tx. 19/3/1996) featured a chilling rant by Street-Porter that tore into the Internet and its users ("every culture needs some kind of blotting paper to soak up the socially challenged."). Although her valid point was that the virtual world is no substitute for the real one, it was an unexpected attack from someone who had been very much at the forefront of modern trends. A keen walker, is a former vice-president of the Rambler's Association . In 1994 she joined long distance walker Ffyona Campbell on the last leg of her round-the-world walk for the documentary series The Longest Walk (BBC).

In 1998 she embarked on a walk across Britain from Dungeness in Kent to Conway in Wales for the seven-part series Coast to Coast In July 1999, to the astonishment of the newspaper industry, Street-Porter was appointed editor of The Independent on Sunday. For all the derision her appointment attracted, she helped take the ailing newspaper's circulation up to 270,460, a nifty sales increase of 11.6 per cent. In 2000, Street-Porter was nominated for a new category at the Carlton Women in Film and Television Awards: the Carlton Television Mae West Award for the most outspoken woman in the industry. Tise Vahimagi Janet Street-Porter tells it like it is at Buy Yorkshire 2014 - YM News - The Yorkshire Mafia Janet Street-Porter tells it like it is at Buy Yorkshire 2014 Friday 20th December 2013 by Anonymous We’re very excited that Janet Street-Porter, will be speaking at Buy Yorkshire 2014!

Janet Street- Porter, well-known British media personality, journalist and television presenter will be providing a standalone seminar and chairing one of the Billion Pound Panel sessions. Over recent years Janet has appeared on numerous TV shows for all the major broadcasters including four series of The F Word with Gordon Ramsay, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Deadline (she was the editor of this celebrity staffed newspaper), Call me A Cabbie, So you think you can nurse and So you think you can teach. She has appeared frequently on Question Time and Have I Got News For You. She has made a number of television programmes on walking, including Coast to Coast and As The Crow Flies, where she walked in a straight line from Edinburgh to London. Janet is also passionate and outspoken about art and architecture. She began training as an architect before she went into journalism. She has commissioned and built two houses in London. Once again she has turned this personal interest into captivating television, she made an episode of The Genius of British Art for Channel 4 and Demolition also for Channel 4, that looked at the worst buildings in the country.

Janet is currently a regular panelist on ITV1’s Loose Women and she writes a weekly column for the Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday. She has written seven books including two volumes of memoirs, two self-help guides and two books on walking. My love affair with Yorkshire started more than 30 years ago when I first came to live here and discovered just how fabulous this county is. It’s great to be involved in the 2014 Buy Yorkshire Conference, and help spread the message-Yorkshire has so much to offer- there’s nowhere else in the UK like it. Janet’s wealth of knowledge and experience combined with her insight and adoration of Yorkshire will make for an interesting perspective. We’re really looking forward to hearing what she has to say! Factual Management - Janet Street-Porter JANET STREET PORTER journalist, broadcaster, big personality Janet Street-Porter’s career spans almost five decades, encompassing print, radio and broadcast media, starting in the late 1960‘s as a fashion writer and weekly columnist on the Daily Mail and then the Evening Standard. She moved to radio, co-hosting a morning show on LBC, London's first commercial station, in 1973.

In 1975 she moved to television, presenting an award-winning series for young people, The London Weekend Show. She hosted late night talk shows Around Midnight and Saturday Night Peopleand prime chat series like The Six O'Clock Show for ITV. In 1981 Janet became a producer, creating a series for Danny Baker, 20th Century Box. Next, she co-created the ground-breaking series Network 7 for Channel 4, winning a BAFTA for originality in 1988. In 1987 she was appointed Head of Youth and Entertainment Features for the BBC. Here she commissioned numerous series and wrote new formats like the Rough Guides. She remained at the BBC until 1994 and during this time was responsible for 35 series from This Is Your Life through to Fantasy Football League. She won the Prix Italia for her production of a little-known opera, The Vampire. In 1999 Janet moved back into print media and became Editor of the Independent on Sunday.

Over recent years Janet has appeared on numerous TV shows for all the major broadcasters including four series of The F Word with Gordon Ramsay, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Deadline (she was the editor of this celebrity staffed newspaper), Call Me A Cabbie, So You Think You Can Nurse and So You Think You Can Teach. She has appeared frequently on Question Time and Have I Got News For You. She was a finalist on Celebrity Masterchef in 2013 and presented a 20 part series on the food specialties of Britain A Taste of Britain with Brian Turner on BBC One in 2014. A former President of the Ramblers, she's made a number of television programmes on Britain's great walks, including Coast to Coast and As The Crow Flies, walking in a straight line from Edinburgh to London. She studied architecture before entering journalism and has commissioned and built two houses. She chose the content for a recent BBC4 series on post war architecture in Britain and presented The Genius of British Art and Demolition both for Channel 4.

Janet appears twice weekly as a panelist on ITV1’s Loose Women, writes regularly for the Daily Mail and has a weekly column for the Independent on Saturdays. She has written seven books including two volumes of memoirs, two self-help guides and two books on walking. Broadcast BBC News | e-cyclopedia | Estuary English: Nuffin wrong wiv it? Tuesday, July 6, 1999 Published at 14:57 GMT 15:57 UK Estuary English: Nuffin wrong wiv it? Forget a double first at Oxford. Forget the old school tie. There's one thing you can have which nowadays seems to make any CV irresistible. Estuary English. Job adverts are unlikely to say that the successful candidate will need to "like, y'know, talk so vat uvver people can understand vem". But those who speak it - whether their accents are mild, medium or strong - are undoubtedly seeing their stars rising. And those who adopt the accent as an affectation to get street cred have even got their own nickname - mockneys. The high priestess of Estuary English is Janet Street-Porter, whose unabashed accent has made an indelible impression on the viewing public.

Janet Street-Porter, the new IoS editor She has just taken over as editor of the Independent on Sunday. Street-Porter is the woman who brought "yoof" TV to UK viewers - a name which itself nods towards the influence of the estuary. And she is by no means alone. Greg Dyke was last month appointed as the next director general of the BBC. The sound of England - three tastes of Estuary English Nasser Hussain is probably still celebrating winning his maiden Test match as captain of the England cricket team. And it all comes after Jamie Shea, the Nato spokesman, became famous worldwide for his blokeish straightforward manner. Estuary English was a term devised in 1984 by linguist David Rosewarne. It refers to the Cockney-influenced accent, which has come to be identified with the Thames estuary - Essex, North Kent, and the capital itself. In particular it is characterised by a glottal stop, the non-pronunciation of the letter T.

(Try saying the word "glottal" in the style of the untutored Eliza Doolittle, and you'll have some idea what it sounds like.) Saying "th" as "f" or "v" can also be a feature. In the last few months, it has even been blamed for undermining the Scouse accent - having been propagated throughout the rest of the country by the residents of Albert Square. Nasser Hussain, the new England cricket captain Despite signs that it could well become the lingua franca of English English-speaking people, some people are still very sniffy about it. For instance, the Daily Telegraph's cricket correspondent, Michael Henderson, had a few harsh words for the new captain when he was appointed. "Somebody who went to a good university has no excuse for speaking in that ghastly estuary sludge," he wrote. "Verbal imprecision often reveals mental laziness. Be a good chap, skipper, use the letter T.

It's not there just to keep S and U company." One newspaper profile of Jamie Shea said: "It is like meeting someone from a docu-soap." And a recent book about Street-Porter's brief stint at Live TV characterised her approach as "innervatif", and quoted her as saying things such as "Wasssamatter wiv yer?" Jamie Shea: Mystified by the attention paid to his accent The Oxford Dictionary of New Words is no exception, saying: "It may now be regarded as fashionable among certain popular comedians, pop and rock musicians, and presenters of television programmes for the young." But the success of these and other "estuarial" speakers shows that what was once counted as a disadvantage can now even be a bonus. Some experts have said its great advantage is that it seems egalitarian and approachable. Charles Owen of Birmingham University's english department said it did not matter to him at all that people speaking Estuary English should be appointed to top jobs. But, he said, some people would argue that if an Estuary English accent disadvantaged someone with a potential employer, they should try to do something about it.

Alternatively, he said, the people speaking it might decide on principle that they would not want to work for someone who wouldn't want to employ them because of their accent. But he made a prediction. "In 100 years, the editor of the Daily Telegraph, for example, will be speaking Estuary English or some version of it because by that time everybody will. "But there will be some new version of English, from Essex or elsewhere, and the editor of that type of newspaper will be complaining about it. "That has always happened and it will continue to happen. Wise people smile and say, 'That's nice'." The E-cyclopedia can be contacted at e-cyclopedia@bbc.co.uk Janet Street-Porter is appointed `Independent on Sunday' editor | The Independent Janet Street-Porter is appointed `Independent on Sunday' editor Wednesday 30 June 1999 23:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Online JANET STREET-PORTER, one of the best-known personalities in the British media, was appointed editor of The Independent on Sunday last night. She has enjoyed an extensive and high-profile career in television and print journalism. "I am very excited about editing such a respected newspaper," she said yesterday.

"The Independent's individuality and style have always been its greatest assets. I look forward to developing the Sunday title further and bringing a fresh approach to the Sunday newspaper market." Ms Street-Porter, 52, is often associated with the development of youth programming on television, with the Bafta award-winning Network 7 series for Channel 4, and with breaking convention. Her eclectic career includes lengthy experience as a TV producer. At the BBC she was head of independent production, running up to 35 series at any one time. She won many awards including the Prix Italia. She was also involved with the start of commercial radio in this country, presenting a two-hour show every day on LBC. And she was involved in the start of L!ve TV. She has also written widely for newspapers. She was a columnist on the Daily Mail at the age of 21 after studying architecture. She later became a columnist on the London Evening Standard. She said last night: "There are a lot of good things on The Independent on Sunday; but obviously I think it could achieve more. We have got to think about how to make it more distinctive. It has got to be more provocative and more lively; but it is a stylish paper.

The Independent is a stylish brand. It can treat things seriously and wittily at the same time." The media analyst Christine Walker, managing partner at Walker Media, said: "It is an appointment that hits you in the face. It must be good for The Independent on Sunday. She ought to be able,with her background and approach to life, to bring in the younger readers who are so elusive in the Sunday market, while keeping the 35-44 age group. I would also anticipate that her input might attract more females." Ms Street-Porter replaces Kim Fletcher, who left the company yesterday. She will report to Simon Kelner, editor in chief of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He said: "We feel that Janet's energy, expertise and individuality will assist us to accelerate the progress made on The Independent on Sunday over the past year. Her presence here will give the paper renewed dynamism and a unique editorial approach.

Significant strides have been made over the past year with both papers and I am grateful for the work that Kim Fletcher has done in a very competitive market place." Brendan Hopkins, chief executive of Independent News & Media (UK), said: "We feel Janet will bring a new direction and are confident that increased circulation will be the result. The financial position is now much stronger and we remain on track for break-even with both titles within the three- year time frame we set ourselves on acquisition." Ms Street-Porter has been president of the Ramblers' Association, is a collector of modern art and lists her recreations in Who's Who as "walking, talking, seeing friends; built my own house". More about:

Question: Janet Street Porter was once the editor of which British newspaper?
Answer: INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY